HR2945-119

In Committee

Housing for All Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Apr 17, 2025

Summary

What This Bill Does

The bill establishes key definitions for the bill including "at risk of homelessness", "homeless", "justice system-involved", "population at higher risk of homelessness", "public housing agency", and "Secretary" (HUD), authorizes $45 billion per year for fiscal years 2025-2034 to the Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing construction and preservation, and authorizes $2.64 billion for fiscal year 2025 for supportive housing for the elderly, including capital advances, project-based rental assistance, service coordinators, and technical assistance for state-level. It relies on grants, appropriations, definition changes, and reporting requirements. The main policy areas are Housing, Social Welfare, Education, and Technology.

Who Benefits and How

State housing finance agencies could gain revenue opportunities, US Interagency Council on Homelessness could gain revenue opportunities, and Homeless individuals and families could see lower costs.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Federal taxpayers could face higher costs, Highway construction projects increasing vehicle capacity could lose revenue opportunities, and Government Accountability Office would take on compliance duties.

Key Provisions

  • Establishes key definitions for the bill including "at risk of homelessness", "homeless", "justice system-involved", "population at higher risk of homelessness", "public housing agency", and "Secretary" (HUD).
  • Authorizes $45 billion per year for fiscal years 2025-2034 to the Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing construction and preservation.
  • Authorizes $2.64 billion for fiscal year 2025 for supportive housing for the elderly, including capital advances, project-based rental assistance, service coordinators, and technical assistance for state-level...
  • Authorizes over $1 billion for fiscal year 2025 for supportive housing for persons with disabilities, including capital advances, project rental assistance, and technical assistance for state-level integration...
  • Authorizes $40.46 billion for fiscal year 2025 for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, including technical assistance and administration. Allows grantees to use up to 15% of allocation for administrative costs.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

The bill establishes key definitions for the bill including "at risk of homelessness", "homeless", "justice system-involved", "population at higher risk of homelessness", "public housing agency", and "Secretary" (HUD), authorizes $45 billion per year for fiscal years 2025-2034 to the Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing construction and preservation, and authorizes $2.64 billion for fiscal year 2025 for supportive housing for the elderly, including capital advances, project-based rental assistance, service coordinators, and technical assistance for state-level.

Key Policy Areas

Housing, Social Welfare, Education, Technology

Primary Purpose

The bill establishes key definitions for the bill including "at risk of homelessness", "homeless", "justice system-involved", "population at higher risk of homelessness", "public housing agency", and "Secretary" (HUD), authorizes $45 billion per year for fiscal years 2025-2034 to the Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing construction and preservation, and authorizes $2.64 billion for fiscal year 2025 for supportive housing for the elderly, including capital advances, project-based rental assistance, service coordinators, and technical assistance for state-level.

Policy Domains

Housing Social Welfare Education Technology

Title I - Housing Investment

Identified Gains
  • State housing finance agencies
  • US Interagency Council on Homelessness
  • Homeless individuals and families
  • Affordable housing developers
  • State and local governments
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Affordable housing developers: ,
State housing finance agencies: , ,
Homeless individuals and families: ,
US Interagency Council on Homelessness: ,
Identified Costs
  • Federal taxpayers
  • Highway construction projects increasing vehicle capacity
  • Government Accountability Office
  • Landlords seeking evictions
  • HUD Secretary
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HUD Secretary:
Federal taxpayers: , , , , , , ,
Landlords seeking evictions:
Government Accountability Office:
Highway construction projects increasing vehicle capacity:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Apr 17, 2025

Mr. Lieu (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Fields, …

Apr 17, 2025

Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition …

Apr 17, 2025

Introduced in House

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Social Services
32 mentions across 17 clauses
+28 positive ?4 uncertain

Behavioral health service providers, Child welfare and justice system organizations, Communities of color affected by housing discrimination

Government
15 mentions across 12 clauses
+13 positive -2 negative

Contract administrators, Government Accountability Office, HUD Office of Inspector General

Positive-direction: Contract administrators, HUD Office of Inspector General, HUD administrative staff, Housing program administrators, Local governments operating safe parking programs, Local governments with transit corridors, Public housing agencies, State housing finance agencies, State transportation departments, US Interagency Council on Homelessness

Negative-direction: Government Accountability Office, HUD Secretary

Construction
12 mentions across 9 clauses
+11 positive -1 negative

Affordable housing developers, Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure developers, Highway construction projects increasing vehicle capacity

Positive-direction: Affordable housing developers, Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure developers, Housing conversion developers, Infill housing developers, Multifamily housing developers, Nonprofit housing developers serving disabled populations, Nonprofit housing developers serving elderly, Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure contractors, Transit-oriented development projects, Transit-oriented housing developers

Negative-direction: Highway construction projects increasing vehicle capacity

General Public
8 mentions across 8 clauses
-8 negative

Taxpayers

+6 positive

Housing equity researchers, Housing policy experts with lived homelessness experience, Housing policy researchers

Libraries And Archives
6 mentions across 2 clauses
+6 positive

Library consortiums, Public libraries, Research libraries and archives

Real Estate
3 mentions across 3 clauses
+2 positive -1 negative

Commercial property owners (shopping malls), Landlords seeking evictions, Rental property owners

Positive-direction: Commercial property owners (shopping malls), Rental property owners

Negative-direction: Landlords seeking evictions

Educational Services
2 mentions across 2 clauses
+2 positive

Academic libraries, School libraries

24/25
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Housing Social Welfare Education Technology
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Domains
Housing Rental Assistance Homelessness Racial Equity
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Domains
Housing Homelessness Transportation Public Health Behavioral Health
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
"the_administrator"
→ Administrator of Health Resources and Services Administration
"the_attorney_general"
→ Attorney General

Note: The Secretary generally refers to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development throughout the bill, but Section 304 uses Attorney General for mobile crisis intervention grants and Section 305/506B uses Secretary of Health and Human Services for library consortium pilot grants

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

7 terms
"at risk of homelessness" §2

Has the meaning given the term in section 401 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360)

"homeless and homeless person" §2b

Have the meanings given those terms in section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302)

"justice system-involved" §2c

Includes individuals who are or have been incarcerated or held in municipal, State, or Federal jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, or other types of detention facilities, who have been held in pre-trial or post-conviction detention, who have an arrest or conviction regardless of whether they were detained or incarcerated, who have been held in immigration detention, or youth held in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement

"population at higher risk of homelessness" §2d

A group of individuals defined by a common characteristic that has been found to experience homelessness, housing instability, or to be cost-burdened at a rate higher than that of the general public, including Asian, Black, Latino, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and other communities of color, individuals with disabilities, elderly individuals, foster and former foster youth, LGBTQ individuals, veterans

"public housing agency" §2e

Has the meaning given the term in section 3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6))

"Secretary" §2f

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

"eligible household" §201a

A family who initially has an income that does not exceed 50 percent of the maximum income limitation for extremely low-income families or is an extremely low-income family that includes an individual who is a recipient of supplemental security income benefits

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